[MGH]

As an administrator for an education service provider here in Bangkok, we have toyed with the idea of creating our own in-house student books not for profit reasons nor even quality reasons. We are considering this because most of the available text books are so widely used by all the schools that many don't find the value in our using the same text book that they do. For example, Super Goal was a very good text book as a base for our conversational English program but we had to stop using it and redo our whole course because within 1 year, it was being printed/produced in Thailand and mass marketed to every public school in Thailand.

Therefore, I usually (as mentioned by Advantage English) look for books that are less well known and not published in Asia. The downside of this is that most of the good ones eventually make it to the Asia market to be locally produced.

Thanks!
Michael